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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people.The bankers almost fell over.- Muhammad Yunus

Here we were talking about economic development,about investing billions of dollars in various programs,and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.- Muhammad Yunus

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunitiesfor those people to take care of themselves becausewe have denied them those opportunities.- Muhammad Yunus

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people.Mindsets play strange tricks on us.We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.- Muhammad Yunus

Soon we saw that money going to women brought muchmore benefit to the family than money going to the men.So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women.As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowersin Grameen Bank are women.- Muhammad Yunus

I wanted to give money to people like this woman sothat they would be free from the moneylenders to selltheir product at the price which the markets gave them -which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.- Muhammad Yunus

I was teaching in one of the universities while thecountry was suffering from a severe famine.People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless.As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.- Muhammad Yunus

If I feel depressed I will sing.If I feel sad I will laugh.If I feel ill I will double my labor.If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.Today I will be the master of my emotions.- Og Mandino

Poverty with security is better than plentyin the midst of fear and uncertainty.- Aesop

As you simplify your life,the laws of the universe will be simpler;solitude will not be solitude,poverty will not be poverty,nor weakness weakness.- Henry David Thoreau

You can turn painful situations around through laughter.If you can find humor in anything, even poverty,you can survive it.- Bill Cosby

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.- St. Francis of Assisi

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,the contemplation of mystery,or the search of truth or perfectionis a poverty-stricken day; and a successionof such days is fatal to human life.- Lewis Mumford

Poverty is the worst form of violence.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nationis the same as in the life of the individual.Pessimism kills the instinct thaturges men to struggle against poverty,ignorance and crime, and dries upall the fountains of joy in the world.- Helen Keller

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.- Mae West

We think sometimes that poverty is onlybeing hungry, naked and homeless.The poverty of being unwanted, unloved anduncared for is the greatest poverty.We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.- Mother Teresa